Rahm Emanuel Talks About Security for Public Officials

Preckwinkle now faces another number: the nearly $10,000 pay raise she reportedly gave to one of her three bodyguards, Delwin Gadlen. The former Chicago police officer and Preckwinkle's top-paid bodyguard received the raise on July 7, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, from $90,290 to $100,260.

Gadlen was chosen for Preckwinkle's security detail after volunteering as an unpaid driver during the board president's campaign, but Preckwinkle spokeswoman Jessey Neves told the Sun-Times that experience, not politics, determined the job.

"My detail is the smallest of any executive in town, the governor, the mayor, and it's comparable in size to the detail of our retired Mayor Daley," Preckwinkle said.